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Brick is interesting. Paver is hard. Granite is laughing at me and my puny chisels.
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Brick Lane Music Hall, Silvertown. As a grade 2* listed building, no material alterations have been allowed to the church, but the spirit of Music Hall has been gloriously achieved with painted trompe l'oeil screens inserted within the arches.
London Docklands, Brick Lane Music Hall.
September 2013
The term ‘red brick university’ refers to the civic universities that were founded in various English industrial cities during the 19th century. Leicester is sometimes viewed as the most archetypical of the nine provincial universities dating from that period. Indeed, Leicester is very much a city of red bricks , evidenced in its old hosiery mills and its civic architecture. The Leicestershire town of Ibstock supplied many of those bricks during the fast industrial growth of the 19th century, and the local Midland Railway prospered and expanded into a national company on the basis of transporting Ibstock bricks, together with the coal and iron ore mined in the East Midlands.
The reconstruction of the Midland Railway’s flagship Leicester station echoed the company’s prosperity, being a feast of red brick terra cotta. Where horse-drawn taxicabs once plied their trade, as well as the electric trams of Leicester Corporation, 21st century transportation is represented by an Arriva Midlands Volvo B9TL bus, a successor operator to Midland Red.
January 2015
Rollei 35 camera
Fujichrome 100 film.
Marcel’s renovating and is roofless. The texture of these bricks either hides the grain or the grain hides the bricks. I still really don’t like this Kodak T-Max P3200 film.
I’ve used the film before and never really been happy with it. Everything I’ve read online from others suggests they love it but I find the grain too much and the lack of contrast annoying (and requiring too much post work). I’ve put most of this down to a lack of my own skills plus my selection and use of developers. Now I’ve come to the conclusion the film is what it is and I need to take it or leave it. There’s simply moments when only ISO 3200 films will capture your image but this isn’t one of them I was using the film because it expires next month. I’m down to two roles and might try the Ilford equivalent (Delta 3200).
Leica M6 TTL, Carl Zeiss Planar ZM T 50mm F2, Kodak T-Max P3200, Kodak D-76 1+1.
The storage shed at the history brick plant at Claybank, Saskatchewan is used to store bricks salvaged from demolished buildings around the province. The random nature of the stored bricks and the colours and patterns caught my attention as I walked through the shed.
I don't have a clue why there is yellow paint on the wall. Maybe the government has something to do with this.
Stacks of bricks in a shed. I took three exposures and processed with Photomatix. The areas that would normally appear underexposed have nice detail and color. HDR doesn't always have to mean looking unnatural. I think this looks more natural than the individual components.
The Davenport Terra Cotta, Brick & Tile Co, was on Garners Lane, Davenport, Stockport. It appears in the 1902 and 1906 trade directories, but not 1896 or 1914.